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Vatican archbishop 'ultimately very optimistic' about Catholic-Serbian Orthodox relations
Vatican Archbishop Paul Gallagher in 2018. | Bundesministerium für Europa, Integration und Äußeres via Wikimedia (CC BY 2.0).
By CNA Staff
Belgrade, Serbia, Dec 1, 2021 / 07:00 am
The Vatican's "foreign minister" has said that he is "ultimately very optimistic" about relations between Catholics and Serbian Orthodox Christians.
Archbishop Paul Gallagher made the remark during a visit to Serbia, a landlocked southeastern European country with a population of almost 7 million, around 85% of whom are Orthodox Christians.
The Vatican's Secretary for Relations with States met with Porfirije, the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on Nov. 23.
"That obviously is a good sign and we believe that there is a dialog that needs to go on and needs to go forward," he told Ivan Tašev in an interview published on Nov. 25 in the Croatian Catholic weekly Glas Koncila ("Voice of the Council").
"There is a history that needs to be challenged and confronted and I'm ultimately very optimistic. We view very positively the signs and the comments of the new patriarch and also I can say that the Holy Father has great respect and esteem for him and considers him already a brother within the universal Christian Church."
Porfirije was elected leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church, in February during an assembly of bishops in the Serbian capital, Belgrade.
In an interview after his election, he raised concerns about the canonization cause of Bl. Aloysius Stepinac, who is considered a hero by Catholics in neighboring Croatia.
Gallagher, who also visited Russia earlier this month, told Glas Koncila: "I think obviously there is a path to take, and that is the path of reconciliation. We need to obviously look at the shared history of the region."
"We need to reinforce our identity above all as Christians and interpret history, the present, and the future in the light of the will of Christ. That is the thing that really matters."
The 67-year-old English archbishop added: "There are a lot of other things such as wounds, there is contested history, and there are many other problems. In the end, what matters for the disciples of Christ is to do His will."
No pope has visited Serbia, but Porfirije's election raised hopes in Rome that Pope Francis might one day be invited to the country, where approximately 5% of the population is Catholic.
During a visit to Serbia in 2018, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, said that a papal visit could only take place "under the right conditions and when everyone agrees."
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What to do when you haven't finished a book but find yourself with something to say about it?
Convention dictates that one should finish a book before reviewing it (although I have my doubts about any number of published reviews), but on the other hand, The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes, was published 20 years ago; this is not breaking news. So out with the convention, in with the thoughts.
These selections are drawn from a fairly brief part of the text, but it is like that the whole way through. Hughes has no fear at all of pungent judgements, and that makes his history both personable and lively. It's not a perfect book. For instance, the transition from the "starvation years" of the colony's beginnings to the slightly more stable situation about two decades later is more assumed than described. I would have liked more on how that came about. And treating many things topically means that he runs back and forth through time quite a bit, and someone not familiar with the territory can sometimes get lost in the differences between the 1820s and 1850s.
Still, these are small quibbles with an enormously satisfying book. It offers insight into class, colonization, trade in the early 19th century, the clash of European empires, how quickly developments can come and much more. Hughes is an opinionated guide to early Australia, one who makes the journey all the more pleasurable with brilliant observation.


Here the archetypal Stuart Adamson SG, a stunning Yamaha SG-2000s in translucent dark green finish. A high-spec Wonderbar trem system has been added, including precision tuning. This guitar is a real gem, plays like a dream, light and fluid, and has been set up with very low action.
The guitar is quite heavy, with a genuine thru body neck that shows up beautifully in the dark translucent green, brass sustain plate under the bridge and an ebony fret-board with abalone split wing fret markers. This particular model, unlike the other 1980's SG-2000s, has been kitted out with coil taps, giving an enormous tonal range and variation. The guitar is player grade and lives in its original case, with its tools and Yamaha cloth. Weight of guitar approx. 4.4 Kgs, neck width at nut approx. 4.3 cm.


As a meeting planner, choosing the right vendors can be a daunting task, especially for a service that is not frequently required. Simultaneous interpretation may well be uncharted waters for most but if you are handling meetings for large corporations, associations or international organizations, you will at times be requested to provide this service. You can be ready to respond right now by learning the proper terminology, where to find equipment providers and the questions vendors will ask.
Simultaneous interpretation is facilitating the communication of speech from one language to another in real-time allowing presentations or conversations to flow naturally, without delay. The interpreted speech is usually heard by using a wireless receiver with earphone. This service might also be called conference interpretation, language interpretation or even simultaneous translation. Interpreting is a very complex task. You might be surprised at how demanding it is, in terms of interpreter qualifications and the quantity of equipment needed to deliver the service. But the truth is that accurate communication is the most important aspect of any meeting and quality interpretation will ensure its success.
What type of equipment is required for Simultaneous Interpretation?
Interpretation booths are used to provide sound insulation for the interpreters. They allow them to work in a quiet environment while blocking their voice from distracting the meeting attendees. Inside the booths, the interpreters will receive an audio feed of the floor channel (the current speaker in the meeting) and simultaneously interpret into another language.
Looking for an equipment provider, you should enquire whether their portable booths meet the ISO-4043 standards or not. If they have the certificate, it is safe for you to assume that the booths will provide proper sound insulation and an adequate working environment for interpreters in terms of comfort, ventilation, lighting and visibility. Detailed information can be found at ISO-4043:1998. Meeting ISO-4043 standards will be an absolute pre-requirement when organizing an event for a prominent international organization.
Table-top booths are generally not recommended but are sometimes used in meeting facilities with limited space where a standard interpretation booth is too large. Table-top interpretation booths provide minimal sound insulation and do not meet ISO requirements.
The console is the central working station for interpreters allowing them to receive, transmit and control the audio. Two interpreters in a same language booth might share one console but individual microphones are always preferred. With the advancements of digital technology interpreter consoles now have advanced features such as Relay and Auto-Relay for events with multiple interpreted languages, or Repeat allowing interpreters to rewind live audio if they missed a word or phrase.
Meeting planners should seek vendors that offer the latest generation interpreter consoles, as they have features allowing interpreters to perform more efficiently. Additionally newer consoles increase the overall fidelity of the audio.
Language distribution provides the audio of the interpreted languages to the meeting attendees who require interpretation. For the majority of conferences, this is done wirelessly. In the world of interpretation there are two technologies used to wirelessly transmit language channels: RF (radio frequency) or IR (infrared).
- Secure and Confidential. Using IR prevents eavesdropping or confidential information to be heard outside of the meeting room.
- More Channels: IR can accommodate up to 32 channels, while RF rarely goes beyond 8 channels.
- No need for emitter panels. IR requires a technician to setup emitters throughout the room for coverage.
- Multiple-room broadcast from one location: RF signals can travel through walls allowing listeners to be in different rooms.
There are a handful of companies that specialize in providing simultaneous interpretation equipment. They would be the ones with the largest inventories, the most advanced equipment and the expertise to advise you on the best solution for different meeting scenarios. The largest conference equipment providers are located in New York, Washington DC, Florida and California, where the majority of simultaneous interpretation events occur. However, most companies travel around the country offering their services.
The same companies that rent projection screens and sound systems will sometimes offer simultaneous interpretation equipment. Most A/V companies do not specialize in this service and own a minimal amount of equipment. Other A/V companies will offer the service and sub-rent the equipment from the aforementioned conference equipment providers.
LSPs are companies that offer mostly translation, but occasionally interpretation services as well. Some of the larger LSPs have an interpretation department. Usually they specialize in hiring and managing conference interpreters, but some companies provide the equipment as well. Those LSPs who do not own their own equipment will often source the service from conference equipment providers.
Conference equipment providers tend to provide the best equipment and the best service. They are able to do this because their business is completely focused on simultaneous interpretation. Their staffs are specifically trained to work with interpretation equipment and interpreters to ensure the meeting runs smoothly. Since interpretation is a niche market, it's just as essential for the staff to be knowledgeable as it is for the equipment to be up-to-date.
What should you look for in an interpretation equipment provider?
- Size – usually determined by the number of guests and size of the meeting space.
- Location – has the vendor performed work in the country/city/venue?
- Client Types – clients within the same industry tend to hold similar style meetings. If the vendor has previous experience working with your client's competition, they might have a better understanding of the meeting layout.
The time it takes a vendor to return calls, provide a quote and answer your questions, says a lot about a company's overall customer service and reflects on their service during an event.
Beyond the general type of equipment offered, check with your prospective vendor the condition of the equipment used, the make and model and when the equipment was purchased. Since the meeting attendees will be in physical contact with this equipment (specifically the receivers) you want to make sure they are not using clunky, outdated equipment.
What is the meeting room layout? The floor plan, seating arrangement and venue size will help the vendor determine what type of equipment is needed.
Will raisers or a video feeds be provided for the interpreter booths? Interpreters work best when they can see the person speaking. If the room is large or if the sightline is blocked, raisers can lift the booths off the ground providing a better viewing angle. Video assist systems can be used to provide a visual of the speaker on a monitor within the booth.
How many languages will be required? In most cases there is one booth, two interpreters and one channel required per language.
What is the audio source for the interpreters? If the company providing the interpretation is not providing the audio, they will need to coordinate with the audio provider to get the audio signal for the interpreters.
Possibly the most important part of choosing a vendor is how comfortable you feel with them. The criteria mentioned can help you determine what you can expect, but the comfort level that you have with a vendor can set your mind at ease.
About the Author: Andrew Murphy manages conference and interpretation at Conference Rental, a lead sub-rental provider for digital conferencing microphones and language interpretation technology. Andrew has worked in the interpretation industry for 10 years and managed events for the 2012 G-20 Summit, the IMF and World Bank Annual and Spring Meetings from 2010-2012 and the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in 2010. Conference Rental specializes in providing state-of-the-art interpretation solutions for International Organizations, Government and Large Corporations.


This article will reduce the cook time of your meals by minutes. Lots of engineering to explain WHY, but I will be sure to bold the tips on how to implement ways to cook food quicker. This uses Chicken for most studies, but this can be replaced with any other meat protein.
This data is 'Out Of Control'. Which means, the data isn't significant. The data I post on this site is the highest mathematical quality I can possibly create, and I will not post bad data.
I will include the Protein Per Second, however I won't post it in an Excel file format like I usually do.
Science would isolate this problem and find that throwing a few thousand pounds of chicken into Lava would be the fastest way. Engineering has to make this problem applicable. Grills, Stove Boiling, Stove Sauteing/Searing, and Slow Cookers are examined.
Methodology for all of these is common. Prep to Clean. Writing down process is something we do in Industrial Engineering.
Clean pan immediately under hot water to reduce sticking.
This can be done faster or slower depending on how you like your eggs cooked. I did this with 4 eggs with the goal of over medium-hard eggs. 27g protein, 4 minutes.
Eggs were cooked in a similar way. Warming up sausages and toasting bread to make taste optimal added an extra 2 minutes in prep time. This included taking out 1 extra pan, 1 extra lid, opening and closing the freezer 2 times, and taking out an extra appliance.
The biggest thing to note- Sausages will cook in a similar time regardless if you have 2 or 10.
To understand why, I drew a picture that brought me back to our dreaded ME331 Fluids and Heat Transfer.
The heat from Electric Burner to Pan is a Heat Conduction(Qconduction). Conduction is Contact-To-Contact. Meaning surfaces need to touch completely. The browning of meats require Conduction and absence of water(we will get to that later). Protein touching the surface of the pan is getting more heat than protein that isnt touching the surface.
The air inside the pan is moving heat through Convection(Qconvection). Convection is the air and liquid flowing next to the protein. When you point a fan at you, there is no surface to surface contact, but the air will brush your skin and reduce your temperature.
Convection is especially strong with liquids, which we are going to see further in Boiling.
Cooking food with a lid ON will cook faster.
Cooking food with a lid OFF will cook slower, but will brown your meat quicker.
781g of chicken, cooked in 8 minutes and 15 seconds. Barely brown. 242g protein makes this 0.49 g Protein Per Second.
Similar mentality as above, adding a lid will speed up the cooking process. Cooked on Medium High heat.
Calling it ugly because there is no browning. The Mailliard Reaction when the lid is on. Any moisture kills the browning that gives chicken flavor.
14 minutes for 1041g chicken. 312g protein and .37g Protein Per Second.
This is some beautiful cooking. Searing both sides of chicken for a near perfect Maillard Reaction. Adding a little vinegar to dissolve the brown Maillard bits stuck to the pan. Adding fajita seasoning and stirring.
Quality comes at a time price.
Despite having massive amounts of convection because boiling water is surrounding chicken, water has a high heat capacity. Instead of cooking the chicken, the heat from the burner is being transferred to the water.
Below is a table for specific heats of materials. Water has a high specific heat, water is more dense than air, and there is significantly more mass to heat up than the same volume of air.
However… once the water is boiling, water is a better conductor of heat.
The most optimal way to boil chicken is to start the water, do something else, come back and drop the chicken in. There will be no mallard reaction, but very quickly chicken will be cooked.
Tip: Use the least amount of water you can get away with.
Oil is also a very popular medium of heat transfer because oil does not boil and can get hotter than water.
If you are going to use oil for frying chicken, take note that at high temperatures, low smoke point oils will begin to smoke and catch fire.
While this technically takes almost 4 hours, this is a favorite because most of this time is inactive. I am considering how to study this given the amount of meat depends on the slow cooker(and who really wants 5lbs of the same meal?). Here are two recipes that take less than 4 minutes to make.
After 4 hours on high or 6 hours low, the chicken can be shredded and topped with BBQ sauce and placed on a bun or eaten plain.
Here is the recipe, takes a tiny bit longer because there are more ingredients and I suggest cooking rice + veggies. However this is a lazy favorite.
Cut the fat off and butterflied 1.5 pallets of chicken. 15 minutes in the oven at 350F.
This is potentially misleading because most people arent eating 1500g of chicken out of the oven. It also negates the time in the oven, similar to slow cooker chicken dishes. This was further packaged for later use.
The biggest takeaway: cooking in bulk pays off significantly.
It should be noted that both Ugly Lid On Chicken and Mass Produced Baked Chicken do not produce the Maillard Reaction.
28g protein including milk in 1 minute flat.
This actually surprised me, I thought a protein shake would crush all competition. It seems that bulk production of food beats the competition.
Cooking food at a single time reduces the prep and clean up time.
Prep and Cleanup is a significant use of time on many proteins and I will continue to look to optimize further.
An ultimate study of Protein Per Second, including fast food, street vendors, store rotisserie chicken and more is in the works. However different methods of home prep are going to be practically useful.
Tip- If you want to save time on any process, apply metrics to it and study each step. Your home chores will become more enjoyable and completed quicker.


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It just says these features….. eg the ones listed. They aren't released yet. They are in beta…
Right but they did release the stoplight and stop sign feature so clearly the "coming later this year" is not contingent on reliability far in excess of human drivers. If Tesla meant to say that one of the future features was contingent on that and one of them wasn't they should not have put them in the same category.
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Yeah that verbiage has never made sense, from the very beginning, and is presumably intentionally ambiguous.
It should say "activation and use of truly autonomous features are dependent on…". Or something like that.
It makes little sense to require billions of miles of validation and achieve safety far in excess of human drivers, and then claim you can't "activate and use" these features in a way that makes the vehicle autonomous. The only way "activation and use" makes sense with the rest of the statement is if it is referring to activating the autonomous portion of these features.
It's all extremely hypothetical though, lol.
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generalmilk
San Bruno, CA
If you use AP on non-highway, then FSD beta does have value as a better driver assist.
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I didn't say that if you swear under oath, you will automatically get a refund on the car (although I guess I can see how you can construe my post as saying such). My point was/is that it would be up to the trier of fact to determine the credibility of the individual who said they wouldn't have bought a Tesla if they had known there would be a significant delay in getting FSD. That (credibility) determination can be based on the testimony of the individual. I could cite case law, but it is a fundamental tenet of jurisprudence.
Not sure I understand your point about testifying in front of a jury in a class action. Are you saying that class action cases don't have juries? (If so, then that is incorrect - as juries can hear class actions). Or, are you saying that class representatives don't testify in front of a jury in class action cases? (If so, then that is also incorrect as class representatives do testify at trial.)
Lastly, people routinely file disputes pertaining to the sale of a car as it isn't a given (by any means) that the legal fees will exceed the price of the car.
Members of the class do not testify at all, jury or otherwise, though one sample member might testify.
Nonetheless I think this is highly unlikely. I don't think you're getting a refund for more than what you paid for FSD (plus interest) if it goes so far as for Tesla to be ordered by a court to give refunds. It's possible Tesla will voluntarily offer refunds under certain circumstances, and they would do it perhaps to preempt a lawsuit, so they can write the refunds on their own terms so that very few people actually request them. They have many options to use to sweeten the FSD pie so that the fans all stay in it, even though offered a refund. The $15K customers might be more likely to want the refund.
They will offer you:
Improved EAP features, including some not in the EAP pack you can buy. I can think of a ton of these they could do.
Ability to transfer your FSD to your next Tesla, or to even clone it to a 2nd Tesla you have (no risk, if you were thinking of a refund, you would not be buying it again for the 2nd Tesla.)
Early access programs
Personal tour of Tesla factory, banquet with Elon
Special badging or other features visible to others as you drive by
And much more. Only a few would refund.
Just curious as to whether you have ever litigated a class action as an attorney in the United States? Because named class representatives do testify at depositions and, if it goes as far as trial (which is rare) often testify at trial.
I don't think you're getting a refund for more than what you paid for FSD (plus interest) if it goes so far as for Tesla to be ordered by a court to give refunds.
Courts don't "order" parties to give refunds (or pay money) unless there has been a trial and a finding of liability as determined by the fact finder (which is usually a jury the rare instances in which a class action goes to trial).
It's possible Tesla will voluntarily offer refunds under certain circumstances, and they would do it perhaps to preempt a lawsuit, so they can write the refunds on their own terms so that very few people actually request them.
If a class action is filed, Tesla isn't going to voluntarily offer refunds. Assuming the case isn't relegated to arbitration, Tesla will defend the case in an effort to prevent class certification. If the class is certified, then that is when Tesla would most likely offer a settlement. At that point, ALL class members would be entitled to partake in the settlement according to the terms negotiated by the parties. In fact, all FSD purchasers who fell within the scope of the class action would automatically be included in the settlement (unless they specifically opted out of the class by the specified date).
None of this would be included in a class action settlement. The class settlement would most likely be for a dollar figure equivalent to a refund (perhaps, but not definitively, provided in the form of a coupon towards a future FSD purchase).
Again, I don't know if you have actually litigated class actions as an attorney in the United States. (Based on the misinformation in your posts, I am inclined to believe you have not.) However, regardless, the process as I have described it, is representative (pun unintended) of the manner in which class actions work.
Our team only litigated one major class action, it's not what we normally did, but the word "one" above was a brain fart. I meant to say that some class members will testify, not one. I am not a laywer, but was chairman of a legal foundation -- which as I said almost never uses class action in its work.
I would be very skeptical in the remedy being a coupon towards a future FSD purchase, if the cause of complaint was that FSD never delivered on its promises. Members of that class would not be able to use such a coupon. (Not that some courts don't award useless coupons, they certainly do.)
This would be unusual because the alleged harm, "I bought FSD based on promises and they were never delivered on" is hard to determine as a matter of fact. In this very board there is much debate over what the promises were, when they need to be delivered on, and what needs to be done.
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t3sl4drvr
they did release the stoplight and stop sign feature
Did they?
I thought that even the basic autopilot is still in beta.
I recall, even the windshield wipers are still in beta...
(I do not have a Tesla any more, so cannot check myself)
t3sl4drvr said:
True, everything is still in beta, even the safety score necessary to get FSD beta is still in beta.
I'm not sure what that has to do with these facts:
"automatic driving on city streets" coming this year" in 2020
purchased "automatic driving on city streets" in 2020
it's currently 2022
claimant does not have "automatic driving on city streets"
Seems like a pretty clear cut case for arbitration to me.
My point was the opposite: If Tesla could argue that FSD buyers will get the feature as soon as it is ready (as in not beta), they would effectively be given a way out of ever delivering anything. Thus this "you'll get it when it is ready" argument just should not hold.
Tesla absolutely should be on hook for the promises they given for FSD. For some early buyers (like me) those promises were L5. For some others those were "navigate on city streets" by the end of the year when the purchase was made.
neo1738
What really matters is what you could convince a judge and jury. Tesla's advertising is misleading at best. I'm a tesla fanboy just waited 471 days for a refreshed X after my Y and even without FSD (had it on the Y waiting for the X) it's an amazing car and I love it. That being said Tesla does have it in writing with a timeline and they didn't meet that timeline. What the damages are would be determined by a court/jury. I think if someone class actioned they would win but don't think the payout would be worth it to anyone but the lawyers.
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Damages? Is there a history of a consumer software package shipping later than planned where a consumer won damages? You should get your money back if you ask. But damages?
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This goes to my skepticism about how viable a class action is - at least one that will encompass the majority of members who post here. Different assertions on the purchase site at different times, coupled with Elon's Twitter promises complicate legal theories. (I don't know the specific timeline but I know the website FSD language when purchasing has changed on multiple occasions.)
I agree with you that a cash payout would be better (and more logical) than a coupon towards a future purchase. Unfortunately, I can see a dynamic where a class opts for a significant discount in FSD price on a future Tesla (via coupon) instead of taking considerably less cash "today."
When you bought the car it had inherent value due to the promise of a feature with a timeline. This is far beyond reasonable and I would almost guarantee you could be awarded damages for the value you paid for FSD and potentially lost value of the car for not having features originally sold. When you get your money back in court that is damages. Doesn't mean the car is damaged but that's what you are suing for.
Also yes or in the case referenced providing subpar product. This is pretty much the same. You are assuming a jury would give infinite time for a feature to be released/distributed but when there was an expectation of a timeline that isn't complete it's a problem.
Software purchase failure examples wasting under $1 million — WAYFERRY
Real world examples of failed enterprise software purchases where the buyer wasted under $1 million.
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Imagine you hire a guy to remodel your house, he advertises "all remodels done within a year!" and 6 years later it isn't done. Think he can go on forever?
Many people here are fed up with how Tesla has treated them in failing to resolve some particular issue. Why not stop waiting for the problem to resolve itself and take legal action to actually resolve the matter?
(Speaking as someone who did take legal action and settled the disagreements I had with Tesla. Unable to discuss details unfortunately.)
Can you give some examples of this?
We're talking software here. You bought a computer. The vendor says, "we're writing this great software for it, and we plan to ship it in the future. We can't say exactly when, but we'll let you buy it in advance and give it to you when it ships."
Now frankly I am not sure I have ever seen that, so there won't be much precedent. Certainly if you didn't pre-pay for the software it would be like thousands of other software packages that were late or never shipped.
That they took your money in advance opens up some new avenues.
This is moot, however. Right now Tesla would probably be happy to buy back people's cars from them for a refund, since used Teslas are selling for more than new ones. That won't last forever of course.
I edited my post above but here is the link, yes this happened.
Also note Tesla did give dates many times and those dates were failed to be delivered. Elon has many times advertised it's full release by end of x year. He is the CEO his word can be counted on by a consumer. Even if he doesn't actually know. So yes I do truly believe someone could win a class action against Tesla and be awarded damages in court. You prepaid for something with an expected delivery date not open ended as you stated.
Most are too lazy to take action for themselves.
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Supcom said:
Or some see the vision and are willing to wait hoping they made a good investment. If FSD really becomes a thing level 3 on all roads even it would be worth significantly more than the 10k I paid.


Hundreds of investors packed into the Queen Elizabeth ll Conference Centre in Westminster, London, for the annual Crypto Investor Show, the largest event of its kind in the UK.
This year saw queues around the block and ticket holders having to be turned away because of the numbers seeking to gain entry.
The gathering provided an opportunity to get up close with some of the teams behind a wide range of blockchain project exhibitors.
Conference participants heard from Fabian Vogelsteller, author and developer of open source projects such as the Mist browser and the Ethereum Wallet. Together, Vogelsteller and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin jointly proposed the ERC20 token standard.
Stephan Tual, the founder and chief operating officer at Slock.it, the sharing economy blockchain project and former CCO Ethereum, also addressed those assembled.
Other speakers included Linda Leaney, chief financial officer of stablecoin play Globcoin, Galia Benartzi, a co-founder of the Bancor Protocol, crypto exchange Cobinhood's chief executive and founder, Chen Tai Yuan, Brian D. Evans from logistics disrupting platform ShipChain, social trading cryptocurrency exchange Coindash's chief executive Alon Muroch and William Knottenbelt, Professor of Applied Quantitative Analysis in the Department of Computing and Director of the Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency Research and Engineering (IC3RE) at Imperial College London.
Ethereum World News spoke to eToro UK managing director Iqbal V Gandham. The trading and investment platform has seen success in the space after adding exposure to crypto to its market offerings over the past couple of years. eToro is the main sponsor of the event.
"Gathering today, I was not expecting the turnout that we had on a Saturday morning. Shows the appetite for all things crypto," Gandham commented.
The sheer number of initial coin offerings and the profusion of fraudulent or otherwise poorly thought through projects in and around crowdsales is probably part of the reason why this year's turn out is as large as it is, with investors hungry for quality curated information.
Also the fall in token prices has concentrated minds. And what better way to get a handle on the potential worth of a project than to come and see for yourself the projects making their pitch and hear from industry experts.
Gandham continued: "As with all things, investors need to understand a little more of what the blockchain does and the value it adds.


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Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis
The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.
Meredith Bragg | 10.11.2017 2:15 PM
Ai Weiwei is arguably the best-known contemporary artist alive today. Years of beatings, detention, and house arrest by the Chinese government only fueled his fame in the West. Now living in exile in Germany, the artist has shifted focus from the repressions of his homeland to the global refugee crisis.
"In the year I was born my father was exiled," Weiwei told Reason. "As a poet he was forbidden to write for 20 years. I grew up…being completely discriminated [against] and mistreated. Yes, it is very similar to a refugee's condition."
His debut feature film, Human Flow, which will be released in the U.S. this week, chronicles the physical and emotional journeys of some of the world's 65 million refugees as they flee their homelands. It was shot in over 20 countries.
"It's not only tragic to the refugees," says Weiwei, "but it's rather tragic to humanity, to our understanding about who we are."
Coinciding with the release of the film, Weiwei is unveiling a major public art project in New York City, erecting hundreds of symbolic barriers around the five boroughs. "It's about territory. It's about borders. It's about immigration."
State restrictions on the rights of individuals to travel is a major theme in Weiwei's work—and life. For over four years, the Chinese government held Weiwei's passport, making it impossible for him to leave the country.
"As an artist, I would have shows in worldwide institutions I could not really attend," he says. The government was "trying to reduce my voice or my possibility for creativity."
In 2015, the Chinese government returned Weiwei's passport, freeing him to leave China. Recently he's been traveling to promote his film and oversee the installation of his work in New York City—enjoying a freedom of movement the artist wants none of us to take for granted.
Produced and edited by Meredith Bragg. Shot by Austin Bragg. Music by Kai Engel.
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Sainz Says He 'deserved To Crash' In FP3
Michelle Foster Sunday 5th September 2021 5:00 AM
Running just 20cm away from where he should have been, Carlos Sainz says he "deserved to crash" in FP3 at the Zandvoort circuit.
Sainz kept the weekend's tradition of at least one red flag per practice session going on Saturday when he binned his Ferrari.
The Spaniard slammed into the barrier at Turn 3 when he lost the rear of his SF21 out of Turn 2 and instead of going left into the banked Turn 3, went up into the barrier.
Both the front and rear of his car were damaged in the impact.
"At the beginning I didn't know what had happened," Sainz said, as quoted by Autosport.
"Then I had a bit of an analysis, a bit of a cool-down in my head, and after what I've seen in qualy, it's very clear now that centimetres off line there's clearly less grip than online there's a bit of sand.
"And I missed the apex by maybe 20cms in that lap, and I and you can see maybe that I pull up a bit of dust, and I think that is enough to create an accident at this circuit."
He was one of three drivers to crash on Saturday with the Williams team-mates into the barriers in qualifying.
Sainz reckons the unforgiving circuit means drivers pay a price for even the smallest of mistakes.
"In terms of challenges," he said, "away from Monaco and Baku, I think this is biggest challenge of the season for the driver.
"I loved it. Even [in] the accident, I felt like I deserved to crash.
"To be 20cms off line, because this is how a circuit should be.
"The prices that we all paid when we were doing mistakes out there is how F1 should be, and how we want the circuits of the future to be, not in the direction that they went 10 years ago. That has been unfortunate."
Red flag as Carlos Sainz makes contact with the barriers. "Ah s**t, sorry guys. I don't know what happened. I'm ok." #DutchGP pic.twitter.com/YapWNhhusf
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Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto told Sky Sports just 30 minutes before Q1 began that he wasn't sure if Sainz's mechanics would be able to repair his car in the time.
The Spaniard says he also had doubts.
"It was in doubt until I pulled out of the pits," he said.
"Normally when you're in that kind of situation your mind tends to go into a bit of a negative state, because you've just crashed, you've just cost the team a massive repair to do, and you're negative, you think you're not going to make it.
"And suddenly the mechanics makes things impossible possible, and you're out.
"It's a high pressure high tension moment for everyone and you kind of need to refocus, you need to make sure you don't put it in the wall again, and then do the qualifying. It's a tricky one."
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Pathetic mainstream media attempting to tie POTUS Trump to serial pedophile Jeffrey Epstein when it's Bill Clinton who took LOTS of trips on the "Lolita Express"
It's become obvious since Donald Trump won the presidency that the so-called "mainstream media" has become obsessed with casting him in a negative light.
Beginning with something like 95-percent negative coverage in the first several months of his presidency, the Washington establishment press hasn't let up. No matter what happens, if it's bad, untoward, illegal, or otherwise negative, it's POTUS Trump's fault.
When the establishment media can't find a connection between bad news of the day and the president, they simply fabricate one as is the case with the arrest of serial pedophile and billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The money mogul was arrested over the weekend on sex trafficking charges allegedly involving scores of minors between 2002 and 2005, The National Sentinel reported, noting that the establishment press has already invented a 'connection' between Epstein and then-billionaire real estate magnate Donald Trump:
A picture of Trump and Epstein — the future president posing with his future wife, Melania, and Epstein with then-girlfriend and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell — at Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort in 2000 has circulated online and all through social media.
What the picture doesn't show, however, is the backstory.
Yes, the president was photographed with Epstein. Yes, the president knew him.
No, the president and Epstein weren't close. Hardly. In fact, according to an April 2016 report by Radaronline, Trump had "no relationship" with Epstein and actually kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago for hitting on a minor.
Radar Online noted further:
According to an investigation by Radar, Trump was among dozens of renowned New Yorkers who knew Epstein socially but ostracized him after Palm Beach police uncovered the financier's sleazy double life.
There's more. Not only did the future president boot Epstein from his resort, he also helped prosecutors convict Epstein in the mid-2000s when no one else would speak out. (Related: Billionaire convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein busted AGAIN for sex trafficking scores of underage girls in New York, Florida.)
The media has targeted the WRONG president for association with Epstein
Florida attorney Bradley Edwards, who represented one of Epstein's initial accusers more than a decade ago, said that private citizen Trump was the "only person" who provided assistance to him.
"The only thing that I can say about President Trump is that he is the only person who, in 2009 when I served a lot of subpoenas on a lot of people, or at least gave notice to some pretty connected people, that I want to talk to them, is the only person who picked up the phone and said, let's just talk," Edwards said. "I'll give you as much time as you want. I'll tell you what you need to know…"
This isn't the first time a media entity has attempted to tie POTUS Trump to Epstein and, more specifically, the billionaire financier's sexual proclivities with underage girls (he's been convicted of it before, remember that).
Recall a little opposition research firm named Fusion GPS? The Washington Times reported in December 2017 the firm "pitched other stories about the Republican presidential candidate to Washington reporters, including an attempt to tie him to a convicted pedophile who was once buddies with former President Bill Clinton."
Speaking of Clinton, the ex-president took more than two dozen trips with Epstein, a long-time Democrat donor, aboard the financier's private 727 jet, which was dubbed the "Lolita Express" — trips that included going to an island Epstein owned in the Caribbean, as Natural News reported in September 2015:
The flight records…also show former President Bill Clinton rode on Epstein's jet at least 11 times, and often with two of Epstein's female associates believed to have provided the dozens of underage girls to their boss and his well-connected friends.
One victim, Virginia Roberts — who filed suit claiming she worked as a "sex slave" for Epstein when she was just 15 — noted that Clinton was sometimes present on Epstein's private island in the Caribbean — Little St. James Island, in the U.S. Virgin Islands — while she was working there.
That's the real story here of presidential associates of Epstein — not Donald Trump.
Read more about how the media slanders POTUS Trump daily at NewsCartels.com and Trump.news.
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A perfect storm for social enterprises?
Are lower-end stores ripe for electronic payments?
Are there easier paths to mobile money?
Better than cash, or just better cash?
Can we make savings a little more interesting for people, please?
Do the financially excluded feel excluded?
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Identity and inclusion: when do digital identities help the poor?
Impact evaluation, now a board game!
Mobile financial services: Is there room for the small, the independent, the different, the nichy, the innovative?
Mobile money agents in Tanzania: How busy, how exclusive?
Mobile money savings systems: What do users think?
Mobile operators: white knights of financial inclusion?
Mobiles: a mass-customizable financial tool?
Money stories: What if financial products could accommodate the tales we tell ourselves?
Safaricom's M-Shwari: Mobile, yes, but how cool?
Segmenting the research: When does it make sense for NGOs to outsource their research to academics?
What is a savings revolutionary meant to believe?
What is the telecom regulator's role in fostering mobile money?
What is the world searching for?
Where will the next big innovation in microfinance come from?
Where's the bank? Proximity is critical, so why aren't academics writing about it?
Who will get the job done?
Why do we feel that poor people need financial education?
Why doesn't every Kenyan business have a mobile money account?
Why is the progress of mobile money so gradual and patchy?
Will digital books rule any more than digital money?
Will hard cash go the way of the compact disk?
If you want to change the world in some way, having an early notable success to showcase is really useful – to both inspire others and show the path. Who can deny that the global mobile money industry has burgeoned on the coattails of M-PESA in Kenya?
Yet I suspect, in hindsight, that the M-PESA effect actually would have been more effective if it hadn't been so successful, so quickly. First, it created the wrong impression to would-be contenders that this is an easy business, a natural extension of what mobile operators already do. (See why I think it's not). The GSMA, the global mobile operator association, still refers to promising mobile money providers as sprinters rather than long-distance runners. Second, it scared financial regulators in many developing countries (especially the larger ones) and also some international standard-setters into thinking that mobile money could pose a clear and present challenge to the structure, stability and integrity of conventional banking systems. Mobile operators cast as barbarians at the gates of banking. Third, the performance gap between Kenya and everywhere else has been so large that it became easy to justify local failure to replicate M-PESA on the grounds of some kind of Kenyan exceptionalism.
Still, better an exaggerated success than none at all. In the same way that M-PESA became a showcase for mobile money, mobile money itself then became a showcase for m-anything: health, education, agriculture, women... you name it, it seems the GSMA's Mobile for Development Fund now has a donor-funded program around it. I am by no means an expert in these sectors and I don't want to pass judgment on the efficacy or potential of mobile technology's impact within them. But one thing that strikes me is the fact that none seem to have struck their own undisputed, scaled-up enterprise. Many interesting case studies get written up in blogs and reports, but each feels small in comparison to M-PESA.
So what is it about mobile money—and in particular mobile payments— that sets it apart from the other mobile application areas? I'd highlight four intrinsic demand-side aspects, leaving aside all the business model and implementation stuff.
First, mobile money offers instant satisfaction to a need. "Do you have trouble sending money home? Do you need money, real quick? Try this, here, now." You immediately can validate the benefits and the effectiveness of the mechanism experientially. The benefits of applications having to do with health, farming or education tend to take longer to play themselves out, and hence lack the immediate customer feedback/learning loops that mobile payments enjoy.
Second, mobile payments can propagate initially through personal and informal usage models. Early use cases of M-PESA involved sending money home, making travel without cash possible, and enabling small traders to source their goods from informal contacts further afield. Use of M-PESA by formal businesses came later, for they needed to run a business case, align their internal and external stakeholders, and find a budget to adapt their systems – all long-term activities. Most m-health and m-education activity is out of necessity, that is, connecting bureaucracies, including some major public ones. Meanwhile, a good deal of m-agriculture has to do with connecting with larger value chain players. In these sectors, it's harder to imagine how to create a hotbed of informal use that can draw the attention of the larger, slower-footed players.
Third, mobile money is fundamentally about user-generated content. It's my transaction, my balance. The internet has shown the value of engaging users based on what they want to say and do, inconsequential as that may appear to others, as compared to the old broadcast model where people were supplied content that was deemed right for them. Many mobile for development applications are still premised on what information the farmer or the community worker ought to know, rather than what information he/she wants to share.
Finally, mobile money requires the communication of very small amounts of highly standardizable data. To do a transaction all you need to do is to type in: who do you want to send money to (a phone number, ten digits at most), how much (maybe 4 digits), and your PIN (typically another 4.) This means that it can be made to work on the entire installed base of mobile phones, even the cheapest, and it is easy to learn the process through repetition. Most other mobile development applications have large and/or variable data entry and transmission requirements, so they typically require use of particular models of phones, which introduces significant capital expenditure and support hurdles.
Despite all this, I see as much inevitability about mobile devices becoming a fundamental tool for health, education and productive systems in developing countries as money management. The opportunity to leapfrog the PC-based environment is simply too large. The above considerations merely suggest that we should expect a more natural step-by-step process in the impact that mobiles can have in various development sectors. There are good reasons why mobile money is running first.
The good news for the other sectors is that if there is an inclusive and effective national digital micro-payment system in place, the scope for developing mobile health, education or agriculture applications will be that much larger. Money is a basic enabler, so it's just as well that it go first.


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Captain's Personal Log, Bookdate 091015.
Admiral Apostrophe is at it again. He's pushing hard for all the stories in his sector to be scanned before the end of the year, so he can confirm there are no prohibited punctuation violations. Sometimes I wonder if he's completely forgotten about our Prime Directive — to let language evolve according to the needs of the readers.
It's going to be a tricky balancing act for our crew. We need to clear away grammatical errors while preserving the writer's right to choose on matters of style. I suspect I'll be dictating some creative reports over the next few weeks to satisfy all those prescriptive politicians back home.
Poor Spot. I think she's picking up on my agitation as we prepare to head out. She's been barking exclamation marks and now they're scattered all over the corridors. It's a good thing we got those upgraded maintenance bots, or it would be a real mess.
Sergeant Semi-Colon is winking at me and tilting his head to hurry me up, so I'd better close this now. I'll write again when we get to our first story destination.
Ha! Indeed. 😉 Yes, I'm looking forward to seeing what this crew gets up to!
I love your crew! Oops…another exclamation mark. I may need to borrow one of those bots you have.
What a collection of characters aboard this craft, Sue. They seem ripe for the unfolding adventure–as am I!
I'm looking forward to getting to know them all and hearing the stories as only you can tell them. And I'm sure they'll all rub off on my writing–Spots, bots and all!
I always vote against those prescriptivist politicians. The descriptivist party needs our support!
Ha, ha, love it! Looking forward to the Comma Chronicles!
Thanks, Lori! I think I'm going to have a lot of fun writing these.


Stop and think about this: God is never surprised or taken off guard by evil. Evil never catches God by surprise. He has seen it all before, he knows when it will happen and He has defeated it all. No matter what ISIS or North Korea or the neighborhood bully does...God knew, God knows God is victorious.
As a child of God, you are never alone! Your Shepherd is with you all the time. He never takes his eyes off of you. He knows everything about you, everything you go through, and every need you will ever have. He will never turn His back on you or even look away from you.
As a Child of God, you never have to feel afraid. Sometimes your Shepherd has to lead you through dark places to get you to the place He wants you to be. He does not always lead you through the places you want to go or you think are easiest. We would not chose to go through the shadow of the valley of death. But, we must remember it is only a shadow that He leads you through. As God leads you, He knows what is around every corner and he knows what is in the shadows. He leads you, which means He goes before you and watches over you to protect you. He also knows your fears and will never lead you through something he that you cannot handle.
There is nothing to fear because He protects you. God is bigger than your fears, your enemies and your troubles. The tougher things seem to get for you the closer God holds you. Even when you can't see God or even feel Him know by faith that He is there...because He has promised and God is faithful.
You will experience the Love and comfort in far greater ways in your greatest need than you will in your greatest ease.
Trust God and His protection today. Trust that He knows what is best. Trust Him because He loves you as no one has ever done and find comfort in your time of need.
Moses: Now therefore, I pray...show me now thy way, that I may know you, and that I may find grace in your sight. Remember that we are your people.
God: My presence will go with you....I know thee personally.
Moses: God, show me your glory. I want to know you more. I am begging you.
God: I will make all my goodness pass before you...but I will protect you from seeing more than you can handle. I will hide you in a cleft in the rock and I will cover you with my hand.
Christian, do you want to know God like that? Do I want to know Him like that?
It has been said that we can have as much of God as we want, but our problem is that we just don't want that much. We tend to want just enough to get us through or get Him or someone else off our back about it.
Oh, that God would give us a desire to know Him!
I pray that God would give us a hunger and desire to know God in such a way that we would beg God to reveal more of Himself to us.
If we do God will. He did it for Moses. He will do it for you.
Joshua met with the God face to face(via the Angel of the Lord: Theophany) as the nation of Israel was preparing to enter the promised land of Canaan. We too can have personal intimate meetings with God.
1. If we are to meet with God in a powerful way we must prepare to meet Him and realize that God prepares us to meet Him through various means. He does so to create a song longing for Him and prepare our hearts to fellowship with Him as we are marked as belonging to Him.
2. Always realize that God will show up in our time of need, but He shows up in His time as He knows best. It may not be our preferred timing, but He is always on time.
3. As you prepare to meet with God, realize the meeting may not take place or form as you think it might. Meeting with God can be settling and convicting but it will also be comforting and reaffirming.
4. Understand that when we meet with God that He wants to hear from us but also He has a message for us. Be prepared to hear his message for you and be prepared to obey his message no matter what it is.
5. When we have a powerful, personal face to face meeting with the Lord it will always result in a humble worship, a holy walk and a heavenly preparation as we go forward for Him. Meeting with God face to face will change the way you think, the way you act and the way you live.


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The naked body of a youth, bound in barbed wire, with several gunshot wounds and deep, extensive torture marks, was discovered inside bush jungles in an isolated area near Kerudavil, Manthuvil in Thenmaradchy Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. by local residents, sources in Jaffna said. The residents informed the district Grama Sevakar who then informed the Chavakachcheri Police who recovered the body, according to sources.
The youth, Mahalingam Thavarajah, 26, was from Vembadi area, Thunnalai in Vadamaradchy and was living in Meesalai North Kodikamam when he was abducted and killed.
Chavakachcheri Magistrate, A Premshankar, visited the site where the body was found to conduct investigations, and ordered the Chavakachcheri Police to transfer the body to Jaffna Teaching Hospital for postmortem examinations.
Earlier, in May 2006, 8 youths went missing in Manthuvil, allegedly killed by the SLA soldiers, according to the villagers.
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Q: Can someone use DC generator along with electric motor to make electricity along with mechanical energy? I know this might sound stupid and maybe stupid totally, but I need some clarification....
I came through electric motor principle.
and then I came across the following link on DC generators
DC Generator
Now my question is, can't we combine them both to provide DC current with little DC used in motor side? By "combine," I mean using a DC generator coil only at the other side of the coil of the motor in the motor itself. The condition is that the 2 coils are connected via some apparatus that causes the 2nd coil to move along with the 1st coil.

In this way we can use both the mechanical energy produced by the 1st coil and the electrical energy produced by the 2nd coil, right?

This is a great concept if it works, right? Please throw some light on this.

A: Can you please be specific about the coils? In case you are referring to the coil inside the motor and dividing it into two halves, then that won't be possible since current needs a loop to flow, and you can't have a closed loop while just having mechanical motion and no current in one loop.
Further, there are always frictional and resistive losses, so the initial energy provided (in the form of rotating the coils at first) it will eventually die out, and will need a driving source - a battery or rotating turbines.
You can't create energy and (or) have 100% efficiency in a cyclic process, violates the second law of thermodynamics as well as the law of conservation of energy.

A: Pranshu Malick is correct. You cannot have a perfectly efficient closed energy system. It would be like trying to move forward in a submarine that had a thrust propeller on the back and a input "generator" propeller on the front, and expecting that once you get going the front will always power the back, and the back the front, and so on.
  You are, however, correct in assuming that there is energy that would normally be wasted that can be collected and reused. In some hybrid cars part of the braking system involves engaging generators, reducing the "wasted energy" of negative acceleration.

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Memorial Day commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. It is a holiday many of us spend doing family gatherings, backyard BBQs or enjoying a nice evening out with friends and family. However we choose to celebrate Memorial Day in Omaha & Lincoln Nebraska, we do so by honoring those who have lost their lives for our great freedoms. Some things to do on Memorial Day 2019 Omaha & Lincoln include camping, fishing and golfing. Want to do something at night in Omaha & Lincoln for Memorial Day 2019? Check out the Omaha & Lincoln Nightlife Guide or the Omaha & Lincoln Restaurants Guide.
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The 2018 Charlie Clark Memorial presented by Cookies BBQ will be on Sunday, May 27th and will feature modifieds, sport mods, hobby stocks, and stock cars.
If you are looking for things to do for Memorial Day in Omaha & Lincoln, then check out the 402area Omaha & Lincoln Guide. You can find events, restaurants, recreation and more. There are plenty of Events and Things to Do in Omaha & Lincoln for Memorial Day. Know of events in your area that are not listed below, then post events on the website to help others looking for things to do.


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Demi Lovato Now Recovering After Friends Found Her Unresponsive In Her Hollywood Hills Mansion
By Austyn Brown
Demi Lovato, the former Disney star and singer, was found unresponsive in her Hollywood Hill 8-million-dollar mansion on Tuesday morning just before noon. Friends who found her immediately called 911 and administered Narcan to revive her.
Narcan is a drug that is typically used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. However, the star and the friends that rushed to her help denied that Demi overdosed on Heroin. TMZ reported that Demi refused to tell the paramedics what kind of drugs she had taken. In the past, it had been reported that Demi was suffering from cocaine and OxyContin addiction.
Law enforcement officials confirmed that Demi was given Narcan by her friends and that this may have saved her life. One of the singer's friends had made sure to always have a dose of Narcan at hand because she was worried that something like this may happen. Good thinking!
The overdose did not come as a surprise to her friends according to a source as Demi had been seen partying and using heavily in the days leading up to the overdose. Just the night before the incident she reportedly was partying all night.
According to law enforcement no criminal investigation has been initiated as it is unknown what drug was used by Lovato and whether she administered the drugs herself.
Reportedly Demi's mother Dianna De La Garza is at her bedside along with her aunt Kerissa Dunn. Kerissa posted on her social media Tuesday afternoon that 25-year-old Demi was responsive and awake and invited fans to pray for her. This social media post has since been deleted for unknown reasons.
Lovato's representative offered a statement to Variety saying "Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everyone for the love, prayers, and support"
The statement further reads that "some of the information being reported is incorrect and they respectfully ask for privacy and not speculation as her health and recovery is the most important thing right now.
Fox announced that an upcoming episode of Beat Shazam featuring Demi that was scheduled to air on Tuesday has been replaced by another episode out of respect to the singer. Demi had tweeted about the show just a few hours before she overdosed on an unknown drug.
A Thursday concert in Atlantic City had also been canceled as reported by Variety.
Demi Lovato had been very vocal about her difficult struggles with drugs and alcohol and even wrote a song, "Sober", outlining her battles and the difficult path to recovery ahead of her. Demi was performing that song just a few days earlier, on Sunday night at the California Mid State Fair, but it seemed that she had a hard time remembering the lyrics of her song.
In a documentary on YouTube Demi spoke candidly about her addiction and how she progressed deeper and deeper into addiction following her first encounter with cocaine at age 17. At that time she was just rocketing to fame with her Disney show Sonny With A Chance.
Lovato admits that she immediately fell in love with the way cocaine made her feel and that addiction runs in her family. Her dad, an alcoholic and drug addict, chose drugs over her family and she always searched for what must have been so powerful to keep him away from his family.
But shortly after her first encounter things spun out of control during a tour with the Jonas Brothers ending up with Demi using drugs daily and routinely. This episode ended with her first stint at a rehab facility.
While she felt great after leaving rehab it only took a short while before she relapsed into her old habits of addiction. Unlike before, however, now she was hiding her use form her friends and family. Demi even was publicly talking about her sober lifestyle while in reality, she was high on drugs. She describes this time as a nightmare going through 20 sober companions and constantly either being on drugs or desperately craving for drugs.
In 2012 she partied with strangers and threw up on her way to an American Idol appearance. This episode was too much for her management team. Her agents told her that if she did not sober up they would drop her as a client.
For the next 6 years, Demi stayed apparently sober while she was going through other struggles like an ongoing eating disorder and the separation of her then-boyfriend Wilmer Valderama.
'I've learned that secrets make you sick. I'm learning how to be a voice and not a victim. I've learned sex is natural. I've learned that love is necessary, heartbreak is unavoidable and loneliness is brutal.
'I've learned that the key to being happy is to tell your truth and be OK without all the answers.'
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Il Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico O.N.L.U.S. (in inglese UWC Adriatic o UWCAD) è una scuola indipendente, facente parte dei Collegi del Mondo Unito (UWC - United World Colleges), un movimento internazionale che riunisce studenti con lo scopo di promuovere la pace e la cooperazione internazionale. La scuola è frequentata da circa 200 studenti, di età compresa tra 16 e 19 anni. Il Collegio offre un programma di studio biennale finalizzato al conseguimento del baccellierato internazionale, un esame equipollente alla maturità italiana.

La scuola è situata nel villaggio di Duino, comune di Duino-Aurisina, in provincia di Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. La scuola è stata fondata nel 1982, con il contributo della Regione Autonoma del Friuli-Venezia Giulia e del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, che sono ancora i due maggiori sostenitori del Collegio dal punto di vista finanziario.

I Collegi del Mondo Unito
I Collegi del Mondo Unito (UWC) sono un'organizzazione internazionale fondata durante la guerra fredda, che mira a promuovere il dialogo tra culture diverse attraverso l'educazione e l'interazione tra ragazzi di diverse culture, che vivono e studiano insieme. Il movimento comprende: i 18 Collegi del Mondo Unito situati in Canada, Stati Uniti, India, Italia, Norvegia, Singapore, eSwatini, Hong Kong, Regno Unito, Costa Rica, Bosnia Erzegovina, Germania, Olanda (Collegio aperto nel 2010), Armenia (2014), Cina (2015), Thailandia (2016), Giappone (2017), Tanzania; un ufficio di UWC International a Londra; Commissioni Nazionali in più di 155 paesi; un network di più di  ex alunni provenienti da più di 180 paesi.

Programma di studio
Il Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico, in accordo con gli ideali del fondatore del Movimento dei Collegi del Mondo Unito, l'educatore tedesco Kurt Hahn, adotta un approccio olistico all'educazione. Il Collegio offre il baccellierato internazionale (IB). La lingua d'insegnamento al Collegio è l'inglese.

Curiosità
Il Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico è il primo Collegio del Mondo Unito ad essere stato aperto in un paese non di madrelingua inglese.

Una delle attuali residenze del Collegio è stata per anni l'hotel Ples di Duino ed è generalmente considerata essere il luogo in cui Ludwig Boltzmann si suicidò nel 1906; nel 2014 è stata apposta sull'edificio una targa commemorativa che ricorda il celebre fisico. L'ultimo piano della residenza è ancora chiuso e si ritiene essere infestato dal fantasma dell'illustre personaggio. Gli studenti sono soliti svolgere l'esame IB di fisica all'interno dell'edificio.

Nel 1996 è stato conferito al Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico il premio San Giusto d'Oro dai cronisti del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Ogni anno tre borse di studio erogate dalla Fondazione Giovanni Agnelli vengono assegnate ai tre studenti italiani più meritevoli, consentendo loro di frequentare uno dei 17 college sparsi nel mondo. Le borse di studio sono legate alla memoria di Filippo Caracciolo, cugino del Presidente della Fondazione John Elkann ed ex allievo del Collegio del Galles (UWC Atlantic), mancato prematuramente nel 2013.

Ex-alunni celebri
 Chrystia Freeland (nata nel 1968), politico canadese.
 Karen Mok (nata nel 1970), cantante cinese.
 Juan Pablo Di Pace (nato nel 1979), attore argentino.
 Lina Attalah (nata nel 1983), giornalista indipendente egiziana.
 Sophie Hawley-Weld (nata nel 1992), cantante statunitense del duo Sofi Tukker.
 Ghil'ad Zuckermann (nato nel 1971), linguista israeliano, esperto di rivitalizzazione linguistica.

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Bibliografia
 Il Collegio del Mondo Unito dell'Adriatico dall'A alla Z 1982-2007 / The United World College of Adriatic from A to Z 1982-2007 un volume in italiano ed inglese a cura di G.Botteri e G.Stibiel per festeggiare i primi 25 anni di attività - LINT Editoriale, Trieste (2007)

Voci correlate
Collegio del Mondo Unito di Mostar
Dialogo tra culture

Collegamenti esterni

Duino-Aurisina
Cultura del Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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Drilled shafts are widely used in Dubai as the main foundation option for high towers and bridges. Hundreds of meters of drilled shafts are installed in Dubai every day. Piling industry has grown widely in Dubai over the past 2 decades. Piles of large diameters as 2.5m and lengths up to 100m are common. It is evident that the current practice of geotechnical axial load capacity estimates in general is conservative, and actual pile axial load capacities as demonstrated by static and dynamic loading tests is much higher than the theoretical design capacities in almost the majority of cases. The main purposes of this study is to review the shortcomings of the commonly used theoretical axial load estimate procedures, and examine the factors and parameters controlling the estimated axial capacity (input parameters). Optimization of the conservative design procedure is suggested by careful selection of main input parameters, and calibration to static loading tests.


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Olivia Wilde Teases Her Involvement in Female-Focused Major Marvel Movie
By Liz Calvario 9:14 PM PDT, August 19, 2020
Daniele Venturelli/WireImage
Is Olivia Wilde directing a major Marvel film? Wilde seemingly teased her involvement in an upcoming female-focused superhero movie on Wednesday, after she reposted a Deadline tweet that mentioned that she had closed a deal to direct and develop an upcoming Marvel film.
The article mentioned that, while it hasn't been confirmed, it will be centered on Spider-Woman.
Wilde, on her end, retweeted the website's news and simply added a spider emoji -- making fans very excited about her upcoming venture.
🕷 https://t.co/hkchsQsaaX
— olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) August 19, 2020
Additionally, Wilde also alluded to her new project by sharing a photo of her 6-year-old son, Otis, wearing a Spider-Man suit.
A post shared by Olivia Wilde (@oliviawilde)
According toDeadline, the film will be written by Katie Silberman, with Amy Pascal producing and Rachel O'Connor executive producing. Not much else is known about the project.
Wilde received a slew of accolades and praise for her debut feature film, Booksmart.
"I believe in it so much, but you never know [how people will react]. You are working on it in your own bubble," Wilde told ET in March 2019. "It was incredible to let the egg hatch into the world and have someone say they also felt it resonated. I have been working really hard on it."
ET was also on the set of Booksmart, where she expressed how she wanted to see a buddy comedy, so she created one.
"It was important for me to a story about female friendship that focuses on how intimate these relationships are and how they're the most important at that age," Wilde told ET, and a group of reporters, during a visit to the Santa Clarita, California, set in June 2018. "It's a story that is relatable in all ways to people of all ages. I just wanted to tell an authentic story about female friendship and create a buddy comedy about young women that I don't think I have seen before."
Wilde's second directorial feat is the psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling, which is currently in pre-production.
For more on Wilde and how she brought Booksmart to life, watch below.
Olivia Wilde Says Getting Censored 'Booksmart' Scenes Back on Airlines Was About More Than Sex (Exclusive)
Olivia Wilde Details Exactly How She Brought Lesbian Sex Scene to Life in 'Booksmart' (Exclusive)
'Booksmart': Everything We Learned on the Set of Olivia Wilde's Insanely Hilarious Buddy Comedy
The Women of Marvel Look Amazing on the Red Carpet
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It seems that as much as we claim otherwise, we all like low fidelity audio, especially the musicians amongst us.
When Mellotrons first came out in 1963, they sounded amazing because they could recreate the sounds of many different instruments at the mere touch of a keyboard. Decades later, digital samplers have made these old mechanical devices obsolete in terms of realism, but they are still highly sought after machines. They are not popular because they reproduce other instruments well. They are highly prized possessions amongst many musicians precisely because they don't sound like the instruments they are emulating. They have a character all of their own. It is their unstable tuning and tape hiss that make them so desirable.
The digital samplers that replaced the Mellotron have now surpassed CDs in terms of fidelity, but many popular artists such as Fatboy Slim still use old 12-bit and 8-bit samplers because they have a "crunchy, grainy quality" to them.
Even Korg's latest synthesisers, such as the Triton Extreme workstation, have a piece of technology in them that has been obsolete since the sixties: a vacuum tube.
Then there's the technology to play the finished music. Vinyl still has supporters, in part because of its warm sound. This warm sound is not in the original recording, hence detracts from the ideal playback, but it is nonetheless pleasing to the ear.
It seems that what's objectively, scientifically high fidelity and what subjectively sounds good are seldom the same. In other words, we like the sound of things that are imperfect.
Just don't take things so seriously that you end up arguing with someone about which is better out of analogue or digital synthesisers, or vinyl and CDs.


Valley Rotary Club in the Water Conservation Garden at Cuyamaca College.
Editorial: Where is the Liberty Going?
and the second being economic.
the loss of freedom is likely not to be perceived at all.
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September 22, 2008 (LA MESA) - If your budget is tight amid today's rising prices, take heart! A fun way to shrink your clothing budget without sacrificing style is to treat yourself to a shopping spree in a delightful East County resale shop.
My personal favorite resale outlet is Act II, which has two stores in downtown La Mesa, both on La Mesa Blvd.
PEOPLE POWER - WORLD'S LAST CASES OF POLIO?
chapters are eagerly pitching in to rid the globe of this silent killer.
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October 1, 2008 (La Mesa) -- When considering a place and/or attraction in the East County to highlight from my perspective as a 20-something woman in a wheelchair, La Mesa's long row of antique shops didn't immediately rank high on my list. This is not to say that I don't appreciate the fine crafts of generations past–I was raised in a household of jukeboxes, ice boxes, and radios the size of large robots–But after years of watching "The Antique Road Show" with my mother, I'm ashamed to say it is still beyond me to tell the difference between a hand-carved wooden horse from the nineteenth century and one carved in a middle school class by a kid with an acne problem. So I decided to roll outside my comfort zone and head off on a modern day treasure hunt.
Bear Padilla checks out pumpkins at Bates Nut Farm.
up on the holiday roster is my family's hands-down favorite: Halloween.
of these neighborhood pumpkin patches and join in the fun!
in the boonies, they'd repeal the law in a nanosecond.
attacks that decimated more accessible tribes.


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"Estos Celos" ("This Jealousy") is a song written and produced by Mexican singer-songwriter Joan Sebastian and recorded by Mexican performer Vicente Fernández. It was released as the lead single from Fernández's 79th studio album Para Siempre.

This single was a very successful release, peaking at number three in the Billboard Hot Latin Songs in United States and reaching the top spot of the charts in México and Colombia. At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008, Joan Sebastian received the award for Best Regional Mexican Song. In México it won the Best Song award at the Premios Oye!. A live version of this track is included on the live album recorded by Fernández, titled Primera Fila.

Song information
"Estos Celos" is included on the 79th studio album by Vicente Fernández titled Para Siempre and was chosen to be the lead single from this album. Since its release on August 10, 2007 it met commercial and critical acclaim. Jason Birchmeier of Allmusic on his review of the album, called this song a "standout performance," and praised the songwriting. Joel Brito of Billboard en Español named this song as one of Fernández's best songs ever. At the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008 this song won Best Regional Mexican song, which was awarded to Joan Sebastian. In México, also won the Best Regional Mexican Song award at the Premios Oye!. The live version of this single, included on Fernández' Primera Fila was very well reviewed by Birchmeier on his review, naming it "delightful"; this version is sequenced back to back with the song "Para Siempre" towards the finale of the concert and include lively participation by the crowd, which sings and claps along with evident glee. In 2012, Dominican recording artist David Kada covered the song in salsa whose version peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Tropical Songs chart.

Chart performance
This track debuted at number 22 in the Billboard Latin Regional Mexican Airplay on September 1, 2008, where it peaked at the top of the chart six weeks later, and went on to spend 10 non-consecutive weeks at number-one and 42 weeks in the chart. This song also enjoyed crossover appeal to other formats, like the Latin Pop charts, where it peaked at number 33. On the Billboard Hot Latin Songs the single peaked at number 3 and spent 40 weeks within the Top 40. It also peaked at number one in México and Colombia. The ringtone for "Estos Celos" received a gold certification for sales over 10,000 units and has been one on the top two sellers for Sony BMG Norte since the album release.

"Estos Celos" ranked 28th in 2007 and 5th in 2008 in the Billboard Regional Mexican Songs Year-End Charts. It also ranked at number 10 at the Hot Latin Songs year-end chart of 2008.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Controversy
In Colombia, a cover version of the single "Estos Celos" by 'El Cape' Medina and Sneider Geles recorded on vallenato style and included on the album Por Siempre y Para Siempre was not allowed to be broadcast by the Colombian Music Association. The song was recorded without a commercial release planned, and the album recorded by Medina and Geles was only given to their friends, but the song unexpectedly achieved success on Internet and some radio stations in Colombia. 'Cape' Medina said about the song: "We know that the original publisher in Mexico found out about our version in 'vallenato' style, and also they know about the success of our version and maybe out of jealousy they decided to restrict, not forbid, the song." To date, this version can still be found on file sharing websites and in the video sharing website YouTube.

Personnel
The following people contributed to "Estos Celos":

Joan Sebastian — Guitar, arranger, producer
Miguel Trujillo — Executive producer
Dennis F. Parker — Engineer/mixer, mastering engineer
Rigoberto Alfaro — Arranger
Manuel Cázarez — Arranger
Mara Esquivel — A&R
Javier Alfaro — Violin

Dave Rivera — Violin
Javier Carrillo — Violin
Hugo Colula — Violin
Francisco Cedillo — Viola
Monica del Águila — Cello
Bernardino de Santiago — Guitarrón
Moisés García — Trumpet

See also
Billboard Top Latin Songs Year-End Chart

References

2007 singles
Vicente Fernández songs
Latin Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Song
Spanish-language songs
Songs written by Joan Sebastian
Sony BMG Norte singles
2007 songs


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Vol. 12 No. 46 (2013) /
Comparative effectiveness of inter-simple sequence repeat and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers to study genetic diversity of Indian Garcinia
Utpala Parthasarathy
O. P. Nandakishore
K. Nirmal Babu
Senthil Kumar
V. A. Parthasarathy
DOI: 10.5897/AJB2013.13053
Keywords: Garcinia, genetic diversity, inter-simple sequence repeats, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA, principal component analysis
A study to compare the effectiveness of inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSR) and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) profiling was carried out with a total of 65 DNA samples using 12 species of Indian Garcinia. ISSR and RAPD profiling were performed with 19 and 12 primers, respectively. ISSR markers generated a total number of 156 bands with 92 polymorphic bands, while RAPD markers produced a total of 134 bands with 80 polymorphic bands. Percentage of polymorphic loci in RAPD profiling was 60.4% while in ISSR profiling, it was 59.3%. Heterogeneity index was similar for the markers, 0.86 for ISSR and 0.89 for RAPD, indicating that both the marker systems are effective in determining polymorphism in Garcinia. ISSR markers showed clear distinction among the species whereas RAPD markers showed segregation based on geographical location as well as species based.
Key words: Garcinia, genetic diversity, inter-simple sequence repeats, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA, principal component analysis.
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